Hamlet 166
“Hard Kind of Courage, The” 194
Hardy, Thomas 165, 179
Harvest Gypsies, The: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath 196
“Harvest Gypsies, The” 132–133
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 165, 167–168, 197
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The 21, 31–32, 194
Heller, Joseph 85
Help, The 186
Hemingway, Ernest xiii, 14, 31, 55, 102, 122, 191, 193
“Here Comes That Rainbow Again" 140
Herriot, James 94–97, 110
Hersey, John 76, 88–89, 93
Heschel, Abraham 76, 91
“Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner” 197
Het Achterhuis. See Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Hillenbrand, Laura 184, 190–191
Hiroshima 76, 89
Ho 69–70
Hoffman, Roy 197, 198
Hohoff, Tay 28
Home Fires Burning 100
Homer 191
Huey Long 196
Hughes, Langston 57
Humphreys, Josephine 197
"Hungry Eyes" 131, 196
Hurston, Zora Neale 44, 57, 160
I
I'll Take My Stand 112–114, 196
In a Yellow Room 198
In Cold Blood 66
Inman, Robert 94, 100
In Search of Willie Morris 195
Invisible Man 53
J
Jackson, Dot 184, 186
Jane Eyre 166
Jaws 171
Johnny Tremain 3, 5–8, 9, 20
Julius Caesar 166
K
Killers of the Dream xiii, 21, 33, 34–35, 36–37, 99
Kincaid, Nanci 198
King, Cassandra 198
Kingdom of God Is Within You, The 188
King, Larry L. xiii, 58–63, 65, 69, 74–75, 195
Kingsbury, Paul 196
Kingsolver, Barbara xiii
Knight, Michael 198
Kristofferson, Kris 129, 140
L
Lamar, Jay xii, 57, 198
Lange, Dorothea 134–135, 196
Lanterns on the Levee 55–56
Last Girls, The 107
Lee, Harper 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 27–31, 38–39, 138, 186, 194
Leopard's Spots, The 98
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 23, 99
Lewis, Sinclair 43
Lie Down in Darkness 185
Lincoln, C. Eric 147, 153–154, 197
Linder, Douglas O. 194
Little Women 166, 176
Lonesome Dove 189
Longest War, The xiii, 76, 91
Love in the Ruins xi
Lynard Skynard 102
Lytle, Andrew 112
M
Macbeth 166
Mailer, Norman 65, 136
Making of the President, 1960, The 71
Mann, Thomas xiii
March 176
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman 174–175
Mark Twain: A Life 16–17, 194
“Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar” 15, 194
Marx, Karl 32, 130
Matthiessen, Peter 111, 122, 124–125, 128
“Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” 66–67. See also Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
McCorkle, Jill 108
McCullers, Carson 21, 31–32, 38
McLaurin, Tim 147, 156
McMurtry, Larry 184, 189
McWhorter, Diane 171, 198
McWilliams, Carey 129, 138–139, 145
Melville, Herman 165, 166, 167, 168, 169
Mencken, H.L. 40, 43, 113
Merton, Thomas 184, 188
Messages from My Father 159
“Migrant Mother, The” 135, 196
Mitchell, Margaret 98
Moby Dick 166, 167, 168, 169, 171
Mockingbird 28, 194
Morehead, Maureen 179, 198
Morgan, Robert 184, 186
Morrison, Toni 3, 13, 18, 57, 193
Morris, Willie 37, 58, 61, 63, 63–65, 68, 70, 74–75, 75, 93, 96, 195
Moviegoer, The 55
Murray, Albert 40, 52–57, 75, 112, 120, 194
My Dog Skip 96
N
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex 169
Naslund, Sena Jeter 165–171, 171, 174–176, 179, 180–182, 197
Newbury, Mickey 74, 75
New Journalism, The 195
New York Days 195
Night 76, 80–81
Nin, Anais vii
North Toward Home 64
Notes of a Native Son 47, 194
Novello: Ten Years of Great American Writing 197
Nowhere Else on Earth 197
Now Is the Time 37
O
O’Connor, Flannery 21, 38, 55, 99, 102, 106
Old Man and Lesser Mortals, The xiii, 58, 62–63, 195
“Old Man, The” 59–62, 195
Old Yeller 10, 96
O’Meally, Robert 15, 193
One Foot in Eden 186
Oral History 107
P
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 194
Peacock, Tom 184, 190, 198
Percy, Walker xi, 40, 55–56, 121
Percy, William Alexander 55–56
Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek 107
Plague, The xii
Poor But Proud 197
Portrait of an Average Woman. See Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Powers, Ron 3, 16–17, 17, 18, 194
Prejudices 43
“Pride and Prejudice” 196
Prince of Tides, The 162
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number 76, 78–79, 195
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy 195, 196
Prophets, The 91
Proulx, Annie 184, 189–190
Proust, Marcel 192
R
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers 58
Rage for Order, A 194, 196
Raney 103
Ransom, John Crowe 112
Rash, Ron 184, 186
Refuge 186
Return of the Native, The 179
RFK: Collected Speeches 195
Right Stuff, The 66
Robinson Crusoe 13
Roots 147, 148–149, 151–152, 153, 155, 197
Rubin, Louis 94, 106, 107–108, 108
Run with the Horsemen 97
Russert, Tim 147, 159
S
Salvation on Sand Mountain 184, 186–188
Sams, Ferrol 94, 97, 100
Sanders, Dori 94, 108–110, 196
Sartre, Jean Paul 46
Scarlet Letter, The 167–168, 197
Schlesinger, Arthur 72, 117, 196
Schrag, Peter 65
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South 194
Seabiscuit 190
Seabrook, Andrea 198
Secret Annexe, The. See Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Shakespeare, William xii, 160, 165, 166
Shields, Charles J. 21, 27, 28, 194
Sinclair, Upton 43
Singleton, George 198
Skloot, Rebecca 184, 191
Slaughterhouse-Five 76, 86–88, 126
Sledge, E.B. 86
Smith, Lee 94, 107
Smith, Lillian xiii, 21, 33–35, 36–37, 38, 99, 162, 194
Snow Falling on Cedars 111, 122, 125–128
Snow Leopard, The 122
South to a Very Old Place 40, 54–56, 120
Springsteen, Bruce 129, 141, 197
Steinbeck, John 129, 131–134, 135–138, 139, 139–141, 142, 145, 146, 196
Stockett, Kathryn 184, 186
“Stonewall Jackson’s Waterloo” 195
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 14
Strange Fruit 33
Styron, William 52, 64, 184–185
T
Tale of Two Cities, A xi, 175
Talese, Gay 66
Tate, Allen 112
“This Land Is Your Land” 131
Thompson, Hunter S. 67
Timerman, Jacobo xiii, 76–79, 80, 90–91, 92, 195
To Kill a Mockingbird xiii, 21–22, 23, 27–30, 38–39, 194
Tolstoy, Leo 43, 166, 184, 188
“Tom Joad” 140
Trail of Tears 197
“Trials of ‘The Scottsboro Boys,’ The” 194
Trillin, Calvin 147, 159
Twain, Mark 3, 10–20, 102, 112, 193
U
Unbroken 184, 190–191
Uncle Tom's Cabin 14
Uncle Tom’s Children 40, 44–45, 46
Understanding Fiction 120
Understanding Poetry 120
Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, The xiii, 58, 71–72
Updike, John 168, 197
V
Van Gogh, Vincent 135
“Very Expensive Education of McGeorge Bundy, The” 68
Voices of Protest: Huey Long 196
Vonnegut, Kurt 76, 86–88, 89, 126, 195
W
Walker, Alice 94, 109, 160
Walking Across Egypt 94, 103–106, 196
War and Peace 166
Warlick, Ashley 198
Warmth of Other Suns, The 186
Warren, Robert Penn 37, 55, 99, 111–112, 114, 116, 118–120, 121, 126, 128, 162, 184–185
Washington, Booker T. 52–53, 109
Water Is Wide, The 160–161
Weller, George 88
Welty, Eudora 21, 32–33, 37, 38, 103, 105
“Whatever Happened to Brother Dave?” 195
White, Theodore 71
“Why I Live at the P.O.” 103
Wiesel, Elie 76, 80–81
Wight, James Alfred. See Herriot, James
Wilder, Laura Ingalls 165, 166
Wilkerson, Isabel 184, 186
Williamson, Joel 40, 46, 194, 196
Williams, T. Harry 117, 118, 196
With Music and Justice for All 194, 197
With the Old Breed 86
Wolfe, Thomas 106
Wolfe, Tom 58, 65, 66, 66–68, 195
Wollenberg, Charles 196
Woman Within, The 106
Working Days 197
“Worn Path, A” 32–33
Wright, Richard 31, 32, 40, 40–45, 46, 50, 51, 57, 64, 194
X
X, Malcolm 50, 149–150, 153
Y
Year of Wonders 165, 176–178, 179, 198
Z
Zweig, Stefan 174–175
About the Author
Frye Gaillard is writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama and the author of more than twenty books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, which won the Lillian Smith Award for nonfiction, and Watermelon Wine, recently reissued by NewSouth Books. Gaillard has also received the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award. He lives just south of Mobile with his wife, Nancy.
To learn more about Frye Gaillard and The Books That Mattered, visit www.newsouthbooks.com/booksthatmattered.
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